From Yves Klein's spotless tailoring to the kaleidoscopic costumes of Yayoi Kusama and Cindy Sherman; from Andy Warhol's signature denim to Charlotte Prodger's casualwear, Porter's roving eye picks out the magical, revealing details in the clothes he encounters, weaving together a new way of understanding artists, and of dressing ourselves. Part love letter, part guide to chic, and featuring generous photographic spreads, 'What Artists Wear' is both a manual and a manifesto, a radical, gleeful, inspiration to see the world anew-and find greater pleasure and possibility in the clothes we all wear.

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Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141991252
Number of pages: 376
Weight: 466g
Dimensions: 182mm x 112mm x 29mm

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Charlie Porter is a writer, fashion critic, art curator and lecturer in Fashion at the University of Westminster, and author of ‘What Artists Wear’. He was a juror for the Turner Prize in 2019, and the majority of the V&A Museum’s contemporary menswear collection is comprised of clothes donated by him. He has been described as one of the most influential fashion journalists of his time.

Charlie Porter is a writer, fashion critic and curator. He has written for The Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, GQ, Luncheon, i-D and Fantastic Man. He has been described as one of the most influential fashion journalists of his time. He is the curator of our latest exhibition, ‘Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion’. His new book, ‘Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion’, written during the exhibition’s research period, will be published by Particular Books, an imprint of Penguin, on 7 September 2023.

Charlie Porter

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In 'What Artists Wear', British fashion journalist Charlie Porter takes us on an invigorating, eye-opening journey through the iconic outfits worn by artists, including that of Duncan Grant.

<p><span>In 'What Artists Wear', British fashion journalist Charlie Porter takes us on an invigorating, eye-opening journey through the iconic outfits worn by artists, including that of Duncan Grant.</span></p>

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